Before I hand the mic to people who have actual wisdom to impart, let me say this. Obviously, this sorry idiocy didn't begin four years ago, or forty, or even four hundred.
All those "it couldn't happen here", "let's hear from both sides" or "this isn't who we are" takes are, at best, ahistorical bullshit. This is precisely what the USA (a nation I love, but am not of) is and has been, for most of its history.
OK, I don't want to boast, but I've cracked it. Brexit. The whole thing.
We need a deal with the EU that respects the result of the first referendum and can secure enough votes from all parties to pass through both Houses of Parliament. 1/n
And I've worked it all out. A sensible compromise. A way out of this mess. I call it #Brexitit.
Hear me out, read to the end. 2/n
Here's the deal we insist the EU accepts:
The EU is no longer sovereign over the UK, instead Parliament is sovereign. We make our own laws. 3/n